Baton Rouge surpassed New Orleans in violent crime per capita for 2011.

The FBI released its national crime statistics Monday, revealing Baton Rouge’s violent crime rate as 1065.7 crimes per 100,000 people while New Orleans was only 792 crimes per 100,000 people. Overall, it shows Baton Rouge is 26 percent more violent.

Violent crime includes murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault.

In the categories, Baton Rouge recorded 64 murders, 51 rapes, 893 robberies and 1,460 aggravated assaults.

New Orleans registered 200 murders, 163 rapes, 1,059 robberies and 1,326 aggravated assaults.

Baton Rouge’s population, 231,592 people, is only about a third the size of New Orleans’ population of 346,974 people.

“Baton Rouge is even worse than we initially thought,” said “Fight, Not Fear” spokesman Jay Connaughton in a news release. “In the last year, crime has continued to grow and spread across the city at an frightening pace.”

“Fight, Not Fear” — a campaign to bring attention to the growing crime problem in Baton Rouge — was started last week in the capitol city.

The campaign demands the unification of Baton Rouge’s two separate police forces: East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office and Baton Rouge Police Department.

The existence of two forces causes problems and inefficiencies in fighting crime, the release says.

“Fight, Not Fear” cites the unification and subsequent drop in crimes rates in Charlotte, Indianapolis, Louisville and Las Vegas in justifying their proposal for Baton Rouge.